Photo of a World Without World Wars

[mspence]

Indochinese Civil War, 1946-1954

Indochina, circa 1956

British advisors in Saigon

Result: Vietnamese diplomatic victory

Belligerents:

Japan
France

Material support
Japan:

Vietnamese/Cambodian rebels

Diplomatic & Material support

Indochinese Commonwealth

France
Britain
US

The war originally began as an offshoot of the Chinese Civil War and the formation of the Indochinese Commonwealth of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos as a counterweight against the Japanese Empire. The war was mostly a low-level conflict which resulted in US involvement in its final stages as the Japanese attempted to support an insurrection in the Philippines. American support resulted in a lopsided material victory for the US, and the Japanese were forced into League of nations arbitration after Japan laid claim to the long-disputed Kuril Islands, which Japan had been forced to relinquish to the Russians following the undeclared Russian-Japanese border war of 1939-1941. Realizing that a multi-front war would not bode well for Japan in the long run, Emperor Hirohito agreed to the terms of the Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict and recognized the de facto independence of Vietnam, over French objections but with American and Russian support. Vietnam was granted the French equivalent of dominion status within the French Empire which would lead to its true independence a decade later.

 

[mspence]

FIRST ATOMIC TEST, 1955

The first successful test of an atomic weapon was carried out by the German Union in Libya under a secret defense treaty with Italy. Code named "Valkyrie," the test sent shockwaves across the world, shaking the other powers out of their complacency and sense of military and technological superiority. The test, equivalent to roughly 100,000 tons of TNT, was quickly followed by the development of atomic bombs by the US (1957) Britain (1958) France (1960) Russia (1962) and Japan (1964). The dangerous "atomic race" would eventually lead to the Great Crisis of the late 1960s and a test-ban treaty in 1970, but not before the environmental damage and health effects caused by radioactivity became widely apparent. There was, however, also the development of peaceful applications of atomic energy in the form of reactors for energy, submarines, ships, and spacecraft, such as the Kiwi reactor-based engine that was developed in the 1970s with support from American Navy Secretary Robert Heinlein.

 

[Kaiserreich333]

His Majesty Tsar Simeon II of the Bulgarians, and his wife, Tsaritsa Margarita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. current rulers of the Tsardom of Bulgaria

 

[Kaiserreich333]

Pop-culture of a World Without WW1

This is inspired by Pop-culture in TL-191 and Pop-culture of the Kaiserreich and is a subdivision of this forum:Photo of a World Without WW1 How did you think music, cinema, animation, fashion and pop culture in general would be in a world without world wars?

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I created this almost a month ago, but no one has posted anything, so I'm sending it again

 

[Vishnustarlord]

What do you think happens to the enclaves of other European powers in india like Goa and Pondicherry

 

[Kaiserreich333]

Remain with the status of overseas territory and gain some kind of autonomy

 

[Vishnustarlord]

V. Narayanasamy. President of regional council of Pondicherry. Though the English gave independence to their Indian colony, the French gave more autonomy to their territory. Though the Indian government wanted the French to give up their claims, the results of the referendum were overwhelmingly positive to the French rule

 

[Kaiserreich333]

Oktoberfest Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio
Due to the large number of German immigrants in the United States, the Oktoberfest festival, originating in Germany (specifically from the Kingdom of Bavaria), has become one of the most popular festivals in the United States, with St. Patrick's Day as its only competitor.

 

[KeeCoyote]

I do not think prohibition worked in this world. So nothing like mobster as we know them. This also affects car racing as bootleggers never happen, so no NASCAR.

 

[Aghasverov]

I do not think prohibition worked in this world. So nothing like mobster as we know them. This also affects car racing as bootleggers never happen, so no NASCAR.

Not so sure about that... the "Temperance" movement was strong, not only in the US but elsewhere in the world (Canada, Scandinavian countries) long before Prohibition...
I could see possibly no 18th Amendment in the US, but there'd probably still be a patchwork of "dry" and "wet" counties, possibly even states... and anywhere you have dry counties, you'll have bootleggers

 

[Kaiserreich333]

I wonder what fashion would be like in this world?

 

[Laqueesha]

Some car sch'tuff:

1.) Street scene in Keijo, Japan, around the time of 2002 FIFA World Cup.
2.) Promotional photograph of an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme from a General Motors brochure, 2019.
3.) Brand-new Land Rover SUVs pending delivery to the German Reichspolizei, 2020.

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1.) Vehicles of the Imperial German Police (Deutsche Reichspolizei [DRP]), 2021.
2.) Royal Serbian Constabulary SUV in Belgrade, 2015.
3.) Angry mob in Honshu, Japan desecrating the flag of Croatia and Slavonia after the country's embassy's Twitter account accidentally referred to Keijo by its old name of Hanseong, 2016. The ambassador later apologized for the mistake.

 

[Aghasverov]

Some car sch'tuff:

1.) Street scene in Keijo, Japan, around the time of 2002 FIFA World Cup.
2.) Picture of an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme from a General Motors brochure, 2019.
3.) Brand-new Land Rover SUVs pending delivery to the German Reichspolizei, 2020.

I like anything having Oldsmobile survive beyond 2019

 

[Rfl23]

A german built seaplane used by the americans for transporting their troop to its protectorate in central america and the carribean (the DR,nicaragua,panama etc)

Imperial russian troop supressing a revolt in siberia

 

[Kaiserreich333]

Keijo, capital of Keijo prefecture and unofficial capital of Chōsen
The Korean peninsula region became part of the Japanese Empire in 1910 and for many years remained a simple Japanese colony, many attempts at independence took place in the 20th century the most famous being the Chōsen Revolution of 1938 which was brutally suppressed by the Japanese army leading to the death of thousands of people, however the peninsula would benefit from the economic expansion of japan between the 30s and 60s [1], going from just an impoverished colony to one of the richest and most prosperous regions in all of japan, such economic growth led to the nationalist sentiment peaked between the 50s and 70s.
In 1953, Chōsen, previously governed by a Governor General appointed by Tokyo, was replaced by 16 prefectures, definitively integrating the penisula as part of Japan.

Chōsen independence protests in the 70s
Between the 50s and 70s the Chōsen independence movement was extremely popular among the population of the peninsula, in a 1960 census about 68% supported the independence of Japan, at the same time a series of attacks against Japanese officials led to the proclamation of martial law at least three times in a decade, the movement would nevertheless lose strength in the 1980s when Chōsen began to gain more and more space in politics, being a region typically supportive of Minseitō [2], in 1988 Japan, in one act of faith allowed the summer Olympics to be held in Keijo, something that contributed to the end of the independence movement's popularity.
Currently, Chōsen is one of the richest regions in Japan, Japanese is spoken by the majority of the population as the main language, but the old language remains strong, despite maintaining many of its ancient traditions, Japanese culture has influenced the culture of Chōsen a lot, currently the Japanese form a large minority on the peninsula, representing about 22% of the population, concentrated in the southern region, Fusan is the only large city in Chōsen whose majority of the population is ethnically Japanese.
[1] Unlike OTL, where Japan had a sudden economic boom in the 60s, in this world Japan has a gradual growth between the 30s and 60s because Japan now has access to the resources of mainland China
[2]The Taisho Democracy managed to survive, and without WW2, Minseitō and Seiyūkai remain the main parties in Japanese politics

 

[Kaiserreich333]

A photograph of German physicist Albert Einstein and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, both of whom were responsible for the creation of their respective country's nuclear weapons

A photograph of the mushroom cloud from the Mikado Bombo, a Japanese nuclear bomb and caused the most powerful explosion of any type of nuclear weapon ever made to this day. Somewhere in Karafuto Island, 30 October 1981.

 

[Kaiserreich333]

German writer Anne Frank, she gained fame writing letters to newspapers describing life as a Jew in Germany. In her adulthood, she became a powerful voice for Jews, suffering oppression in Europe, particularly in Central Europe and Russia, although she occasionally spoke about human rights issues affecting non-Jews, particularly blacks in the United States.
Her speeches on the subject of human rights are celebrated around the world.

 

[Laqueesha]

Some national holidays:



1.) Soldiers of the Imperial German Army marching in the annual Reichsgründungstag parade in Berlin, January 18th, 2017.
2.) Street vendor in Edmonton, Canada selling Canadian flags during Dominion Day celebrations on July 1st, 2017.
3.) The U.S. national flag, decked out with its 51 stars, hanging from a lightpole in Washington, D.C. on the 4th of July, 2019.

 

[Kaiserreich333]

Some national holidays:



1.) Soldiers of the Imperial German Army marching in the annual Reichsgründungstag parade in Berlin, January 18th, 2017.
2.) Street vendor in Edmonton, Canada selling Canadian flags during Dominion Day celebrations on July 1st, 2017.
3.) The U.S. national flag, decked out with its 51 stars, hanging from a lightpole in Washington, D.C. on the 4th of July, 2019.

Who is the fifty-first state?

 

[Rfl23]

Who is the fifty-first state?

Maybe the pr?